The ObamaCare-IRS Nexus

The supposedly independent agency harassed the administration's political opponents and saved its health-care law.

By

Kimberley A. Strassel

July 24, 2014 7:31 p.m. ET

One of the big questions out of the IRS targeting scandal is this: How can an agency that engaged in such political misconduct be trusted to implement ObamaCare? This week's Halbig v. Burwell ruling reminded us of the answer. It can't.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Halbig that the administration had illegally provided ObamaCare subsidies in 36 insurance exchanges run by the federal government. Yet it wasn't the...